Guia didactica para la ensenanza de la lectura-escritura (Guide to the Teaching of Reading and Writing).

Instituto Nacional de Pedagogia (Mexico).

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a guide prepared by the National Pedagogic Institute for the teaching of reading and writing. The general principles in the guide will tend to unify first grade teaching methods. A brief presentation gives a description of the parts in which the guide is divided. (1) Preparatory exercises, to enable the child to reach complete maturity in the psychobiological aspects; (2) The teaching of vowels, basic to learning sentence and word analysis, and consonants; (3) The teaching of consonants is carried out through word and sentence analysis, and by forming new consonants with the sounds already earned. The chapter on the development of the third state contains suggestions for consolidating reading through exercises that should be practiced as soon as the child reads the first word. Using literary material not only improves reading ability, but also promotes the development of aesthetic sensitivity in the child. In the chapter on consonants, there is described the teaching of letters, with a series of suggestions for stimulating and beginning the learning of certain letters, plus suggestions for words, phrases sentences and lessons that can be formed with letters already learned. (Author/GDB)